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Third view of Life in Bombay

Our roadside barbershop is not the
only game in town, and stylists elsewhere in town are sometimes even more
creative with their locations! The streets of Bombay are usually filled
with colorful characters going about their daily business, such as the
local shave and haircut man, some truck drivers with their brightly colored
vehicle, and the local banana wallah.

People use whatever power is available
to move things, from their herds to their heads. Of course, sometimes the
new ways are best, as the egg truck demonstrates.

The eggs don't look really secure in there,
but I will show you (someday) the competition: boxes of them strapped on
to bicycles!! There are still plenty of reminders of the lack of what we
might call 'full industrialization' here. Pedal-driven sewing machines
are the norm here, and Breck loves to try them out whenever he gets a chance!

And the old traditions do die hard
here. Kids (ha ha) leading goats home on the eve of the Big Eid, when that
goat is scheduled to have its throat ceremonially cut. Yummy.